Habenaria corydophora Rchb.f. 1876
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Photo by © Philipp Weigell
TYPE Drawing of H buchtienii TYPE Drawing of H buchtienii by © Renz
Drawing Drawing by © Roberto Vasquez
Common Name The Club-Carrying Habenaria
Flower Size .5" [1.25 cm]
Found in Colombia, Junin and Cusco departments of Peru and Bolivia in humus of wet montane forests at elevations around 1880 to 2200 meters as a medium sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with a slender, erect stem enveloped by foliaceous sheaths and carrying 4 to 7 scattered, narrowly triangular, acute, basally clasping leaves that gradually get smaller towards the apex and blooms in the summer on an erect, 3" [7.5 cm] long, 4 to 5 flowered inflorescence with delicate green flowers with white petals and lip with blue gynostemium.
Easily recognized by the following combination of characters: leaves lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, scattered along the stem, suborbicular dorsal sepal, entire, ligualte to ligulate-pandurate petaqls and a 3 lobed lip with the lateral lobes being obliquely subquadrate, extrorse to lightly retrorse." Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017
Synonyms Habenaria buchtienii Schltr. 1922
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Repert. Speciorum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis Band VIII Peru Schlechter 1921;
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 10: 31 Bolivia Schlechter 1922 as H buchtienii;
Orchids of Peru Vol 1 Schweinfurth 1958;
Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Series II plate 0235 Dodson & Vasquez 1989 drawing fide;
Orquideas Tesoro de Colombia Vol 2 Ortiz & Uribe 2017 drawing fide;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 159 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 drawing fide;
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